ShortStack News

In the past few months, have you written a blog post, published a branded resource such as a PDF or ebook, or shared a Facebook post on behalf of your business? These are all types of “inbound marketing,” which is taking up an increasing part of many companies’ marketing budgets. More and more companies are […]

When was the last time you built a contest, gave away a coupon or ran a marketing Campaign on your social media channels? Chances are you answered recently, or you may be running one as we speak! ShortStack has been around for four years (!) and we’ve seen social media marketers and marketing Campaigns be taken on a wild […]

In 2014 we added 284 new features to ShortStack! Yep, that is one almost every day. Since it can be difficult to keep track of everything we have going on, we’re going to make it easier for our users by writing a monthly update to let you know about some of the updates we think […]

You may or may not know that Socially Stacked is the blog for ShortStack (we make marketing campaign building software). At ShortStack, our goal is to provide businesses and agencies with the tools they need to create engaging marketing campaigns. As we all know, the more interaction you have with your online audience, the better chance […]

We’re excited to announce our most recent form integration: Salesforce! Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) product that businesses large and small use to organize their marketing efforts. Salesforce lets you keep leads, sales deals, and documents all in one place. According to Salesforce, companies using Salesforce see: +27% increase in sales revenue +32% increase in lead […]

Each month we compile a bunch of data that looks at things like support desk stats, feature requests, customer feedback, etc. When we talk about these numbers in our bi-monthly staff meetings, the goal is to help the team understand our customers’ successes and pain points. We’re going to start sharing them so you can have […]

For our monthly giveaway this month we’re changing things up a bit. Instead of us deciding what to give away, we’re letting you — our awesome ShortStack users and blog readers — tell us what you want to win. From now until Friday, September 15th, enter for a chance to win any item (up to $500 value) […]

On August 7, 2014, Facebook announced that it would no longer allow brands to “Like-gate” apps or campaigns. We’ve been recommending against this practice for a while now, but we know that some people are upset by Facebook’s latest move. In this post we’ll take a look at why Facebook made the decision and what […]

Starting November 5, 2014 (and August 7, 2014 for all new apps) like-gating will no longer be allowed on Facebook Pages. According to Facebook, “You must not incentivize people to use social plugins or to like a Page. To ensure quality connections and help businesses reach the people who matter to them, we want people […]

We’re excited to announce a brand new integration with Canva! Canva is a design tool that takes the hassle out of creating graphics for your business. Whether it’s a blog graphic, cover photo image, presentation or custom images for your Campaigns, Canva makes it easy for anyone to create professional graphics themselves. This integration will allow small […]